'Mitch said he speaks to a lot of different groups,' a spokeswoman said about his Monday night speech in Minnesota. 'On this occasion, he was asked to speak about Indiana's fiscal transformation.'

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Hayleigh Colombo
hcolombo@jconline.com

Does Mitch Daniels' speaking engagement at a fundraiser hosted by a conservative Minnesota think tank cross a political line the former Indiana governor drew last year when he became Purdue University's president?

Some in the Purdue community think so.

Daniels delivered the keynote address Monday at the Center of the American Experiment's fall briefing, focusing on his major moves as Indiana governor. The group bills itself as nonpartisan but says its "aim is nothing less than shifting Minnesota's intellectual and political center of gravity to the right." ...